Table of contents : Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Modern Life in the Colonial Period 1. The First Urbanization 2. The Genesis of Urban Housing 3. Architecture and the Introduction of New Materials Part II.. Searching for Identity in the Developmental Period 4. Urban Expansion and the Construction Boom 5. New Urban Housing 6. The Quest for Architectural Identity 7. The Semantics of Technology Part III. From Modernization to Globalization 8. Discovering Reality 9. New Paradigms for Urban Design Epilogue: A Correlative Architecture between the Void and the Solid Appendix: Profiles of Korean Architects and Planners Notes Bibliography Index